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Notes on religious merit (punya)
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Atharvaveda, XIX, 54.4
2 Satapatha-Brahmana, XIII, 5.4.3
3 Chandogya Upanisad, 1II. 17.4
Ibid, V. 10.7
5 Bṛhadaranyaka Upanisad, VI. 5.4
6 Dighanikaya (Nalanda Edition), vol. III, pp. 46, 171;
Aṣṭasaharika Prajñāpāramitā (Darbhanga Edition) pp. 34, 69-70.
7 Ratnavali (of Nāgārjuna), I, 21, 44, 57
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Bodhicaryavataro, VII, 64.
9 Majjhimanikāya (Nalanda Edition), vol. III, p. 262;
Samyuttanikaya (Nalanda Edition), vol. I, p. 14.
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Notes and References
10 Rock Edict No. XI; see R. G. Basak, Asokan Inscriptions, Calcutta, Progressive Publishers, pp. 55-56.
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11 Yogasaraprabhṛta, IX, 62
12 Samuyasara, IV. 145-147.
13 See Vasunandi-Śrāvakācāra, ed. by Hiralal Jain, Varanasi, Bharatiya Jñanapitha, 1944.
Pravacanasara, chapter II on conduct (Căritra).
14 Mahabharata, Vanaparvan, chapter 82, verses 9-12;
Anusasanaparavan, chapter 108, verses 3-4; Skanda Purana, Kasikhanda, VI. 3; Vişnudharmottara Purana, III. 272. 7, 9.
15 Bhagavadgita, 37, 57; III. 35, VI. 41.
16 Manusmrti, 238-239; Mahākarmavibhanga (Darbhanga Edition), p. 197 verses 21-24.
17 Tomas Watters, On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, (reprinted), 1961. Vol. I, pp. 286, 139, 328; vol. 11. P. 286.
18 Louis H. Gray in The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, ed. by J. Hastings and others, vol. VIII, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, (reprinted), 1964, p. 559.
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19. Sabdaratha Sri Gura Grantha Sahib, (Amritsar). especially Sidhagosați, p. 942.
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